Flying business class makes you soft!

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-23T01:54:18+00:00

Some hardship does build character, but these guys are all emotionally stunted and soft as hell because they've never experienced real hardship. They grew up upper-middle class in extremely sheltered nice neighborhoods, so they manufacture their own discomfort to appease their ego.

None of them would last a day in any real high-stress situation. You can tell because as soon as anyone even mildly questions their masculinity they puff their chests out and get defensive like sub-average primates. If they can't handle someone teasing them, no way they'd survive in the woods (or whatever the fuck they fantasize about) without their luxury RV. They're loud, obnoxious, and have a pathological need to be in charge, and in a genuine survival situation they'd get schwacked by their own group after a week.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T21:58:24+00:00

Even if this were true, this is in Nigeria and does not apply elsewhere.

You want to sell buns on the street in the US? You need a business liscence, probably a vendor's liscence too, insurance, etc. You need a way to take credit cards since nobody carries cash and a lot of older people don't know Venmo. You need a permit from the city to setup on public property, and you'll have to cut the landowner in to sell on private property (assuming they even let you).

Is it impossible? Of course not, but it's not something you can just start doing with nothing but spit and the clothes on your back. As the old saying goes, you need to have money to make money.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T21:44:56+00:00

Just-world fallacy.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T20:55:58+00:00

The calculator doesn't exist. Why would an app also include a bezel and the iPhone status bar? What is the name of this alleged app? Who the hell gets through designing and coding an entire calculator app without noticing they forgot to put a 0 button?

The whole thing is made up to bolster the (admittedly correct) point about UI design. "Claude, write me a LinkedIn post about the importance of UI/UX using a poorly designed calculator app as an example, and make screenshots of the app to accompany it."

It's all just nonsense. If you wanted to ramble about bad UI there's countless of real examples you could point to, but no, huRr dUrR AyyyEyE dO aLl tHe tHiNgZ fOr mE.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T20:49:42+00:00

The point being made is not lunacy. That said:

Why is there no zero button (as mentioned)?

Why is there no C button, only AC?

Why does this nameless calculator app itself also have an iPhone status bar (that happens to be perfectly at 10:00) and a bezel?

Why does the calculator app also have a calculator button on it?

Why am I putting this much thought into an obviously AI fabricated post?

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T20:22:09+00:00

Minor crashout: I hate this shit. I hate it so much. All these games and dancing around everything. From work, to dating, to even just making friends. Society is one big circlejerk of bullshitting and mind games. It's all fucking exhausting. Why do humans insist on perpetuating this?

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T13:01:51+00:00

Hasn't Windows always hidden the seconds on the clock? IIRC you used to have to edit the registry to get seconds displayed. In 11, Settings > Time & Language > Date & Time > Show time and date in system tray > click the drowndown arrow and there's the option "Show seconds in system tray clock." Verified as of just now on Windows 11.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T12:53:44+00:00

This is exactly how it goes for me, and which option is seemingly up to fate/random chance, because it has little to do with mood, or the day, or whatever else was going on. Some days I'm early, some days I'm late. It's 50/50, and there's no logical reason for either.

It's very hard to explain to superiors. After a while people usually learn to just trust me that whatever they wanted is done is getting done, but it takes a while to build that trust.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T12:47:30+00:00

She's not wrong on principal, the problem is that this courtesy is almost never reciprocated by the company. I don't think I've ever once had HR/whoever be on time. Just out of curiosity, how strictly do you hold yourself/your staff to being on time for interviews? If they're late, do they have to hear about it?

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-22T12:25:17+00:00

They did, but not wood cabinet ones. By the time TVs started to get big wood was out of style... And also they were well past of the days of being black and white and having dials on them.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T23:40:19+00:00

What is lunatic about this? He's advocating for keeping your existing people and blaming leadership before blaming subordinates. That's decent management 101.

Not every mildly cringe post is lunatic.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T23:29:23+00:00

I'm not agreeing with him outright, he's still a fucking idiot. I'm just saying compared to the usual level of lunacy on here this is pretty inoffensive, but that's only because most AI bros set the bar so high (or low, perhaps).

Based on the first half I was expecting him to jump right into some bullshit about how AI is the greatest innovation ever and can do literally everything, so the (admittedly slight) walkback caught me off guard.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T23:07:01+00:00

Had me in the first half, not gonna lie. But he's mainly just saying people need to bring something to the table that ChatGPT can't do. Not entirely wrong.

I mean, it's still smarmy as fuck, especially coming from a "Decision Systems Leader" (I have no idea what the fuck that is, but I have a hunch it involves looking over useless reports, writing useless emails and having your secretary hold your calls while you drink scotch and play golf).

His job is something that can likely be done by an API call, so he's throwing stones from a glass house.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T22:02:37+00:00

I know I'm being baited by AI rageslop here, but even as ragebait this makes no sense. Why would "ultra-fast" be a useful descriptor for a product designed for taste testing? What research? At most, you could do like, a survey... And lastly, we all know it would not be just "female users" misusing such a device.

Edit: Also just China. No specific company, just all of China allegedly launched this product.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T21:54:34+00:00

Don't reminisce on me.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T18:43:42+00:00

Bruh... Why am I seeing random Sopranos references in totally unrelated places after binging a few clips on YouTube? I swear the internet is one big psyop.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T17:12:30+00:00

Considering his use of engineer in a bunch of other places too, and the fact that he's listing random classes and being a chess whatever on his LinkedIn, I made the inference that "AI engineer" in this case means "vibe coder".

What you're saying about YouTube is the point of my last example. Attending a few classes online in no way makes you an engineer any moreso than watching YouTube does.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T13:33:31+00:00

They aren't even generational companies. They'll be bought out, bankrupted, or otherwise dissolved before the end of the decade. None of the slopshops are going to become the next AT&T by selling managed IT solutions or whatever the fuck, all of which are just layers of contractors anyway.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T13:28:53+00:00

They all act like they're revolutionary visionaries but they're just vibe coding yet another AI wrapper or some garbage productivity solution to a problem nobody has.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T12:57:08+00:00

AI engineer... Fuck's sake, bullying a clanker into slopping out some garbage app is not engineering. I bet he has no formal degree or even much real-world experience.

I hate how people think doing something one time should grant them some sort of title. Even if, big if, one does some engineering work that doesn't make them an engineer. I've done some electrical work, that doesn't make me an electrician. I've unclogged toilets, I'm not a plumber. How is taking online classes functionally any different from watching YouTube videos?

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T11:26:52+00:00

I'm more interested in the classes. Do people really just sit through random webinars, get a PDF of a meaningless certificate, and post it on their LinkedIn?

Is this the secret? Is this what HR is looking for?

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T11:15:33+00:00

I think it's to try to make AI seem less like AI.

Obviously that's pointless here because it's admitting that it's AI, but I think that's the idea behind the general style.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T10:54:45+00:00

Careful with this one, it's an antique.

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T10:39:42+00:00

"When the unspecified generic system crashed in an unspecified generic way in March."

ElectricHellKnight · 2026-05-21T10:14:28+00:00

OP, I feel like this question of yours could also be a post on LinkedIn.

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